Mass Productions

Audio, Video, and Film preservation experts in Boston!

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The podcast interview about the Humpback Whale Recordings we have been recovering for WHOI https://t.co/Mk1ESojMT0

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Mass Productions and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution discover the oldest known sound recordings of Whale songs from 1949! They were recorded on Audograph records and we are currently digitizing them. https://t.co/GfuIhQlqH2

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Mass Productions now offers speech to text transcriptions from Films, Videotapes, and Audiotapes that we digitize. The transcriptions can be provided as word files, subtitles on video files, or as .SRT files you upload to YouTube along with the video.

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CLIR recordings at risk is offering another cycle of grants for AV digitization. Applications are due by February 24, 2026. Please put together a detailed inventory spreadsheet and contact us soon for an estimate! https://t.co/REIaG9alKK

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Mass Productions just digitized films and audio reels from the Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. archive in Boston. An audio reel contained the 1959 meeting of the "Alfalfa Club" Mr. Lodge was elected President of the club that year. Vice president Richard Nixon gave a surprise speech!

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Mass Productions recently completed digitizing over 700 VHS videotapes of performances for the Boston Ballet. A number of videotapes were sticky AMPEX brand. They required baking in a lab oven for two weeks before the tapes could be played one more time for digitization.

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He's listening to records we digitized 🙂

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The SONY CV-2000 from 1965. The first consumer video tape recorder! It used half inch videotape on reels that recorded a half hour of black and white video on a 5 inch reel. Mass Productions can transfer these CV format tapes.

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These audio reels from the 1960's were leaving behind a white residue on the tape transport on our decks. It is failing silicon lubricant and it's flaking off the tape. We gently cleaned the tapes with a special silicon impregnated cleaning cloth which adds new lubricant.

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Mass Productions can now scan 8mm, Super 8mm, 9.5mm, 16mm, and 35mm film with optical or magnetic sound in resolutions up to 4K!

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The deadline for the next round of CLIR Recordings at Risk Grants is due soon on April 14th! Contact us right away for an estimate!

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Radio Shack cassettes have a problem! The glue that holds the pressure pads in place is failing and the pressure pads are falling out! This makes the tapes unplayable. We have a supply of replacement pads that we glue back into place so the audio on the tapes can be recovered.

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CLIR Recordings at Risk will begin accepting applications for media preservation grants for up to $50,000 starting January 14th! Contact us for an estimate for preserving your important media! https://t.co/GYFiY4dB5N

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If you have any of these BASF audio cassettes from the 1970's, they have an issue with lubrication loss that causes them to make a horrible squealing noise and very distorted audio. We recently discovered a very effective way to recover audio from this brand of tape.

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The devastating fires in Los Angeles have destroyed archives. Important historic recordings on tape and film have been lost forever. This is why digitizing your media is very important, because then you can make offsite backups of the data files on cloud servers.

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If you have any of these bright red AMPEX 198 Betacam videotapes in your archive, get them to us right away to digitize! We recently discovered this particular tape formulation is getting sticky and requires baking before playback. DO NOT try to force play these tapes!

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Ocean Alliance is now starting to share online the Humpback Whale recordings we have been digitizing for them over the past few years. 550 audiotapes have been preserved, and there's about 500 more to go. Enjoy! https://t.co/m5bufN6dBS

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution just published this excellent article about the film and video digitization project we did for them in 2021. We are looking forward to continue working with them to preserve their archive. https://t.co/UwbGsr4tf8

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Some nasty moldy VHS tapes we just cleaned and recovered for a client. NEVER store your videotapes in the damp garage or basement! Seal them in a plastic tote, store in cool, dry conditions, and get them digitized ASAP!

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On the left is the video signal level of a 40 year old Umatic videotape. The video is poor, and the control track is gone, so playback is a mess. On the right is signal level from a 1995 videotape! This is a good example of why it's so urgent to digitize your tapes!